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Dawson, William. William Dawson was created by “Bennet Copplestone,” the pseudonym of Frederick Harcourt Kitchin, and appeared in ten short stories from 1916 to 1923, beginning with “The Lost Naval Papers” (Cornhill Magazine, Sept. 1916); eight of the stories were collected in The Lost Naval Papers (1917) and The Diversions of Dawson (1923).

William Dawson is a Chief Inspector with Scotland Yard. He had formerly served in the Royal Marines and achieved the rank of sergeant. He is forty-five years old and has unusually shaped ears, supposedly inherited from particularly wolfish ancestors. To those who do not know him, he seems to be an “inhuman, icy-blooded ‘sleuth,’” but he warms up once he gets to know someone.

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